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Jessie L. Bisbee

Male 1889 - 1932  (42 years)

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  • Name Jessie L. Bisbee  [1, 2]
    Birth 23 May 1889  , Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Gender Male
    Occupation school teacher  [8, 9] 
    Census 20 Jun 1900  Cisco, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Census 13 Jan 1920  Cisco, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Census 22 Apr 1930  Cisco, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Death 17 Jan 1932  Cisco, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Cause: acute purulent pertussis w/pneumonia left lung 
    Burial Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Gorman, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • Gravestone inscription: "Jessie L. Bisbee / 5/23/1889 - 1/17/1932" -- read by Wm. F. Bisbee, 1998.
    Jessie L. Bisbee Memorial with Gravestone Photos    		 Jessie L. Bisbee Memorial with Gravestone Photos
    Created by Ted, Jun 28, 2009
    at Find A Grave
    Person ID I114  Bisbee
    Last Modified 5 Aug 2011

    Father Charles Andrews Bisbee,   b. 17 Nov 1846, Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Mar 1929, , Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Mother Mary Jane Estes,   b. Sep 1850, , Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1918, , Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    Marriage 30 Jan 1878  Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 11, 12] 
    • Charles' younger sister Olive S. Bisbee married Charles Daniels and they were living in Cisco, Texas, by 1884. No doubt they maintained contact with Charles, because in 1895, Charles Andrew Bisbee moved his family to Cisco also. Left behind was his eldest daughter, Cora May who was said to have never seen them again. One of his sons, Elmer Myron, recalled beginning the trip with a long wagon ride, then boarding a train that took them to Texas (as told to Bobbie Ray Bisbee, Cisco, Texas.)

      According to his great grandson, Bobbie Bisbee of Cisco, Charles Andrew deeded all his mineral and oil rights to an orphanage at Weatherford, Texas, near Fort Worth. The orphanage no longer exists.

      Granddaughter Ruth Bisbee Lamb (deceased) recalled that Charles Andrew was a tall man with blue eyes, and he always had a bit of peppermint candy for the children. He often worked in his potato garden, even on cold, damp days, an activity that probably contributed to his death. She remembered that Charles Andrew was buried on a wet, muddy day (in 1929). He was taken from his house to the nearby cemetery in the back of (son) Jessie's pickup truck which slipped and slid in the mud. Ruth feared the casket would slide off the back of the truck (it didn't).
    Family ID F61  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Clara Belle O'brien,   b. 3 Feb 1897, Pleasant Hill, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Feb 1981, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    Marriage 8 Sep 1917  , Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 13] 
    Notes 
    • An article in the local Cisco, Eastland County, Texas, newspaper-- "AN ABSOLUTE Treasure Trove fell on us when C. M. (Charlie) Wyatt Jr. dropped in on us. He was here for the Collins Reunion of last weekend, and shared some top-flight Carbon history with us. It's actually his C. H. S. Senior Autobiography and he surely got an A+ on it because it is filled with important history: class, aerial and individual photographs, maps and prose. He asked us to share it with Webb Jordan who is doing his continuing series on Carbon History. It's amazing how many of the pictures have teachers and personalities we remember. There must have been 30 kids in that 1933 first grade class with Miss Reba Ransom and just as many the Second year with Mrs. Mamie Townsend. It's amazing: I can actually associate some "little faces" with names from the past. Of 15 boys, only four did not have bibed overalls, and that was long before school uniforms were the thing. Elva Lee Jones was the Sixth Grade teacher. Among others, I recognize Cousin SAMMYE BISBEE, Glen Ford, and others. Henry Collins was the Seventh Grade teacher. T. E. Robertson was Superintendent in 43-44 and F. M. (Mooney?) Wood was principal. Mrs. Davis (Merrit Dunn's mother) ran the school candy store after Al Harrison, also janitor? There's a photo of the MKT Doodle Bug passenger train that ran from Waco to Stamford and back, through Carbon once a day. C. W.'s dad, Cyril "Red" Wyatt ran a barber shop and Cousin HOMER BISBEE and "Tuffy" Spencer were shine boys. The building that formerly housed the "Playboy Club" on Main St. was originally his dad's barber shop."
    Children 
    +1. Berta Mae Bisbee,   b. 29 May 1916, Pleasant Hill, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Doratha Jane Bisbee,   b. 11 Mar 1918, Pleasant Hill, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jul 1992, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    +3. Charlie Glenn Bisbee,   b. 6 Mar 1920, Pleasant Hill, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jan 2006, Ranger, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     4. Homer Andrew Bisbee,   b. 7 Feb 1922, Pleasant Hill, Eastland, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Dec 1984, Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    +5. S.N. Bisbee
    Family ID F117  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 23 May 1889 - , Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 20 Jun 1900 - Cisco, Eastland, Texas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 8 Sep 1917 - , Eastland, Texas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 13 Jan 1920 - Cisco, Eastland, Texas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 22 Apr 1930 - Cisco, Eastland, Texas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Cause: acute purulent pertussis w/pneumonia left lung - 17 Jan 1932 - Cisco, Eastland, Texas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Gorman, Eastland, Texas, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 59.

    2. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 14.

    3. [S1553] Bisbee, Clara O'Brien: Family Bible.

    4. [S1610] Bisbee, Jessie L: Grave Marker, (Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Eastland County, Texas).

    5. [S74] Bisbee, Jessie L: Death Record, (City Hall, Cisco, Eastland, Texas).

    6. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 134.

    7. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 29.

    8. [S51] Bisbee, Charles Andrew (I55): 1920 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T625, roll 1797; enumeration district (ED) 117, sheet 2B, page 214B, line 95, dwelling 22, family 23; image downloaded 11/7/2008.), 1920-Justice_Precinct_6.117.4.jpg.

    9. [S78] Bisbee, Jessie L. (I114): 1930 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2002): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T626, roll 2325; enumeration district (ED) 31, sheet 10A, page 168A, line 1, dwelling #, family 181; image accessed 12/24/2008.), 1930.TX.Eastland.Precinct 6.31.19.

    10. [S49] Bisbee, Charles Andrew (I55): 1900 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T623, roll 1629; enumeration district (ED) 60, sheet 16B, page 226B, line 68, dwelling 286, family 286; image downloaded 11/7/2008.), 1900-Justice_Precinct_6.60.32.jpg.

    11. [S1459] Bisbee, Charles Andrew: Marriage Announcement, (Erie, Pennsylvania).

    12. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 58.

    13. [S1471] Bisbee, Jessie L: Marriage Record, (Eastland County Courthouse, Eastland, Texas, vol 6, p. 281).